Biology:Coptotomus
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Short description: Genus of beetles
| Coptotomus | |
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| Coptotomus longulus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Dytiscidae |
| Subfamily: | Coptotominae |
| Genus: | Coptotomus Say, 1830 |
Coptotomus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae, the only genus of the subfamily Coptotominae. There are about six described species in Coptotomus, found in North America and the Neotropics.[1][2][3][4]
There is one extinct species from the Palearctic.[5]
Species
These six species belong to the genus Coptotomus:
- †Coptotomus balticus Hendrich and Balke, 2020
- Coptotomus difficilis LeConte, 1852
- Coptotomus interrogatus (Fabricius, 1801)
- Coptotomus longulus LeConte, 1852
- Coptotomus loticus Hilsenhoff, 1980
- Coptotomus serripalpus Say, 1830
- Coptotomus venustus (Say, 1823)
References
- ↑ "Coptotomus Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=112371. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ↑ "Coptotomus". https://www.gbif.org/species/1038025. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ↑ "Coptotomus genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/58028. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
- ↑ Nilsson, A.N.. A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) (Report). Archived on 2019-07-26. Error: If you specify
|archivedate=, you must also specify|archiveurl=. http://www2.emg.umu.se/projects/biginst/andersn/World%20catalogue%20of%20Dytiscidae%202015.pdf. Retrieved 2019-06-17. - ↑ Hendrich, Lars; Balke, Michael (2020). "A Baltic amber species of the diving beetle genus Coptotomus Say, 1830 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Coptotominae)". Zootaxa 4895 (2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4895.2.7.
Further reading
- Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMID 23431087. PMC 3577090. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4003.
- Larson, D. J.; Alarie, Y.; Roughley, R. E. (2001). "Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94 (5): 769–770. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0769:PDBCDO2.0.CO;2]. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250056124.
Wikidata ☰ Q2194421 entry
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